Oct. 8. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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DESCENDANTS OF MILTON. 



It is well known that tlie issue of the poet became 

 extinct in 1754, unless they survived in the de- 

 scendants of Caleb Clarke, the only son of Milton's 

 third daughter, Deborah. Caleb Clarke went out 

 to Madras, and was parish clerk at Fort St. George 

 from 1717 to 1719. In addition to a daughter, who 

 died in infancy, he had two sons, Abraham and 

 Isaac ; of neither of whom is anything known, ex- 

 cept that the former married a person of the same 

 surname as himself; and had a daughter Mary, 

 baptized in 1727. Sir James Mackintosh made 

 some ineffectual attempts to trace them, and came 

 to the conclusion that they had migrated to some 

 other part of India. 



I am perhaps catching at a straw : but it is pos- 

 sible there may be something more than a coinci- 

 dence in the name of Milton Clark, who is spoken 

 of in the fourth chapter of the Key to Uncle TonCs 

 Cabin as brother to Lewis Clark, the original of 

 the character of George Harris. Perhaps some of 

 your transatlantic friends can inform us : 



1st. Whether there is, or has been, in use any 

 system of assigning names to slaves, which would 

 account for their bearing the Christian and sur- 

 name of their owners or other free men, and thus 

 lead to the inference that there has been some free 

 man of the name of Milton Clark. 



2nd. Whether there is any family in America 

 of the name of Clark, in which Milton, or even 

 Abraham or Isaac, is known to have been adopted 

 as a Christian name ; and, if so, whether there is 

 any tradition in the family of migration from 

 India. J. F. M. 



AN ANXIOUS QUEET FROM THE HYMMALAYAS. 



I was honoured, a few days ago, with a com- 

 munication from India, which contains a Query 

 that is out of my power to answer. But being 

 very solicitous to do my best towards affording 

 the desired information, I bethought myself of 

 sending the letter, in extenso, for insertion in your 

 very valuable and exceedingly useful miscellany. 

 I venture to think that you will agree with me, 

 that the interesting nature of the communication 

 entitles it to a place in " N. & Q." As the letter 

 speaks for itself, I shall say no more about it, but 

 proceed to transcribe the greatest part of it at 

 once. 



"Landour Academy, May 26th, 1853. 



" Rev. M. Margoliouth, 



" Sir, — I do not know in what terms to apolo- 

 gise to you for this communication, especially as 

 it may entail trouble on you, which can result in 

 my advantage alone. 



"I am a Jew, believing that Jesus is the 

 Messiah ; and I trust this will induce you to 



assist me in my search after some of my relations, 

 whom I believe to be in England. 



" I wrote to Dr. Adler, Chief Rabbi of the 

 Jews in England, some years ago, but his inform- 

 ation was limited to some distant connexions, the 

 Davises, Isaacs, and Lewises, who still professed 

 Judaism. Subsequent inquiries discovered two 

 uncles of mine, Charles Lewes and Mordan Lewes, 

 in London, who informed me that my grandfather, 

 Isaac Levi, was for ten years a clergyman of the 

 Church of England, and had a congregation at 

 Lynn, in Norfolk, and that he had published a 

 tract against Judaism. Beyond this I can get no 

 farther information : my uncles are either too 

 poor or unwilling to prosecute their inquiries any 

 farther. Could you ascertain for me whether my 

 grandfather left any family, and if any member is 

 still alive ? My object is to discover their exist- 

 ence, and to renew a correspondence which has 

 been interrupted for more than forty years. 



" I am the grandson of Isaac Levi, for many 

 years dead, reader of a congregation of Jews ia 

 London; my father, Benjamin Levi, is still alive, 

 and is with me. I keep a school at Landour, in 

 the Hymmalayas, in the north-western provinces 

 of India. I have been led to write to you after 

 reading your Pilgrimage to the Land of My Fathers, 

 and seeing in it that you are the autlior of a work 

 entitled The Jeivs in Great Britain, which I have 

 not seen, and concluding from this that if any one 

 can obtain information you can. 



" I send this letter to Messrs. Smith and Elder, 

 booksellers, of Cornhill, London, with a request 

 to send it to you through your publisher, Mr. R. 

 Bentley," &c. &c. 



I do not feel justified in publishing the last two 

 paragraphs in my correspondent's letter, and have 

 therefore omitted them. I shall feel extremely 

 obliged to any of the readers of " N. & Q." who 

 could and would help me to answer the anxious 

 Query from the Hymmalayas. M. M. 



Wybunbury, Nantwich. 



" De la Schola de Sclavoni." — On a large marble 

 slab at North Stoneham, near Southampton, is the 

 following inscription : 



" Alio Dni mcccclxxxxi Sepvltvra de la Schola de 

 Sclavoni." 



Is this the burial-place of the family of one of 

 the foreign merchants settled in this country, and 

 can any of the correspondents of " N. & Q." give 

 any inibrraation about it ? John S. Burn. 



Mineral Acids. — As it is generally supposed that 

 these powerful solvents were not known anterior 

 to circiter A. d. 1 100, 1 should be glad to learn what 

 opinion is entertained by the learned concerning 



